All of the negative attention that Trump has drawn over his statement on abortion lead to a rare instance of him walking back his rhetoric. In a statement, he implied that it should be medical professionals and not abortion patients who are the ones that are punished.

“If Congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld this legislation, or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman,” Trump said in a statement.